Review: The Favourite
Purportedly the story of 1700s British royal lust, jealousy, ambition, and betrayal under the reign of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), a rather pathetically petulant, often depressed, and frequently ailing monarch. Rachel Weisz is the stern Lady Sarah, the pants-wearing lady-in-waiting and lover of the Queen. The harsh, bitchy Lady Sarah is about to meet her match in her own lowly cousin Abigail (Emma Stone), who quickly becomes the Queen’s new confidante, and even bed companion. This one’s a quick study, it seems. Nicholas Hoult plays one of the resident wig-wearing fops, who has a rather bitchy repartee with Abigail, who he wants to use as his spy (Kids today would likely call them ‘frenemies’). You’re probably not going to like me today. I’m not a fan of corset and frilly dress movies, but period movies about royalty are usually a little closer to the mark for me. There’s several good movies about Elizabeth I, for instance, and I did enjoy “Her Majesty Mrs. Brown” and “...